Silverthorne, Colorado

Silverthorne is another one of those new-fangled mountain towns where I couldn't find much of historical interest. The Raven Golf Club is beautiful, the neighborhoods around it are high-end, the views in all directions are pretty good, but the whole town felt to me like one of those "master planned communities." Even the shopping centers were architected to fit in with the rest of town so you didn't recognize them as shopping centers until you read the signage. I did follow the signs to the Silverthorne Recreation Center and Pavilion: that was a big surprise. Surrounded by parkland, soccer fields, baseball fields, a nice concrete skate park for the skateboarders, and a huge parking lot, the rec center itself was quite a large building with lots of amenities inside: gym, spa, workout rooms, conference rooms, etc. Which takes me back to the notion that the whole of Silverthorne was a master planned community, except that now there are some new add-ons. Like that area above the golf club... Now that I think about it, I'd say that the major part of Silverthorne came into existence about the same time that Dillon Reservoir was filling with water (back around 1963). That would also explain the structure housing the Police Department and Town Hall, and all those mature trees around that building. In the end, Silverthorne was pretty enough, I just thought it was just a bit short of historical character (as in: no Victorian architecture).